Tom Latham scored a debut century as Warwickshire reached 364-4 against Surrey on the opening day of their County Championship Division One match. New Zealand batter Latham struck an unbeaten 139 from 244 balls after Surrey chose to bowl on another belter of a batting pitch at Edgbaston. Rob Yates scored 86 against the champions’...
Raphina makes it 3-2 to Barcelona with a late strike against Inter in their Champions League semi-final second leg. Read full article at source...
Resuming on 336-6, it was honours even for the first session as Glamorgan added 95 more runs for the loss of their last four wickets. Colin Ingram fell for 81 in the first over, hooking Blair Tickner straight to fine leg, but a stand of 86 between van der Gugten and Gorvin (39) occupied most...
Graham Clark celebrated his fifth County Championship century with a pristine innings to put Durham in charge against Hampshire. Batter Clark led Durham’s run surge from a perilous 82-4 with partnerships of 124 with Ollie Robinson (76) and an unbroken 124 with George Drissell – who reached the close on 58 not out. Clark –...
Andrew Dawkins BBC News, West Midlands PA Media Bin bags have piled up on streets during the dispute The Unite union says if Birmingham City Council puts in writing “what it is saying in public” a deal in the bin dispute “would be much closer”. In a statement, it claimed the authority’s leader John Cotton...
An opening partnership of 184 between Tom Haines and Daniel Hughes placed Sussex in a commanding position at the end of the second day of their County Championship match against Somerset. By the time Jack Leach finally broke the first wicket stand, in the 50th over, the Sussex lead was 277. And by the close...
On April 10, two American Airlines jets clipped wings on the taxiway at Reagan Washington National Airport outside Washington, D.C. No one was injured in the minor collision, in which six members of Congress were among the 143 passengers. Just two weeks before, on March 28, a formation of four military jets on their way...
Did the Supreme Court rebuke district court judges in a ‘landmark’ ruling yesterday? Or did they narrowly split the baby on procedural grounds? John wrote last night about the 5-4 decision to vacate a TRO by Judge James Boasberg that had halted deportation proceedings under the Alien Enemies Act. Today, Attorney General Pam Bondi...
Two female zebras have been put down at Paignton Zoo due to deteriorating health conditions, the organisation has announced. The zoo said it had made the “difficult decision” to euthanise, Taru, 22, and Leila, 11. Taru had cancer that stopped responding to treatment, while Leila had a rare blood-clotting condition affecting her quality of life,...
Marcus Harris’ century on his Red Rose debut helped Lancashire take charge against Middlesex on day two at Lord’s. The Australian Test opener, batting at four, survived an early scare to share a stand of 120 for the fifth wicket with Luke Wells (38). It was Harris’ 30th first-class ton and he became the sixth...
Holland’s first ball got rid of Zain Ul Hassan, edging to slip, but Eddie Byrom got the scoreboard moving with his first 36 runs coming in boundaries. The Foxes’ five-man seam attack gained consistent movement and Tom Scriven trapped Sam Northeast lbw for 17, before Ben Green found the edge of Byrom’s bat for 41....
A historic house which has cost a Devon council nearly £500,000 to maintain in recent years has been put up for sale. Plymouth City Council listed the Grade II listed Pounds House in Central Park had been put on the market as it could not identify a use for the mansion, which dates back to...
Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze opens the scoring against Fulham with an “absolute scorcher” at Craven Cottage in the FA Cup quarter-final. Read article in full at source...
British Steel is launching a consultation that could see the closure of its two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, putting between 2,000 and 2,700 jobs at risk. The company said the blast furnaces were “no longer financially sustainable” due to tough market conditions, the imposition of tariffs and higher environmental costs. British Steel chief executive Zengwei...